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World Tech Update: Hackers, Xbox News, and Robots

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In this week's show: Hackers descend on New York, a new service sends you directly to voicemail, Microsoft's online services head departs, NTT DoCoMo shows off Super 3G, augmented reality mixes PCs with the real world, Microsoft announces plans to make your own Xbox games, WiMAX is set to take off, and a robotic device helps paralyzed people walk again.

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  • World Tech Update: Hackers, Xbox News, and Robots Hackers descend on New York, Microsoft's online services head departs, NTT DoCoMo shows off Super 3G, augmented reality mixes PCs with the real world, Microsoft announces plans to make your own Xbox games, and a robotic device helps paralyzed people walk again.
  • Interactive CG Characters on Your Desktop Geisha Tokyo Entertainment develops a system for interacting with computer-generated (CG) characters on your desktop. The system involves a Webcam recognizing a 2D barcode on a small cube.
  • TV-B-Gone Inventor Speaks at Conference At the Last Hope hackers conference in New York City the inventor of the infamous TV-B-Gone talked about his current projects, but also reminisced about the past.
  • Top 10 Games of E3 2008 The big E3 Games Expo has wrapped up for another year and to recap the week of games in Los Angeles, here's a look at the best ten games as ranked by GamePro.
  • Big Game News at E3 New game previews at E3 include Capcom's Resident Evil 5, Fallout 3, and Gran Turismo TV, which delivers TV content to Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. There's also good news for Nintendo fans: The Mario and Zelda development teams are at work on new titles.
  • Wii Music and An 80Gb Playstation At the e3 gaming conference in Los Angeles, Nintendo announced the release of Wii Music, which transforms the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers into more than 60 different instruments. Other new Wii developments include the Wii MotionPlus, an accessory for the remote, and Wii Sports Resort. In other news, Sony announced an 80-gigabyte version of the PlayStation coming in September.
  • Xbox 360 News Dominates E3's First Day The big news from day one at E3 is a coup for Microsoft as the software giant announces a host of new services, games, and streaming movies for the Xbox 360.
  • NTT DoCoMo Tests Super 3G System Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo is developing Super 3G as a stepping stone technology to bridge the gap between today's HSDPA systems and future 4G cellular.
  • iPhone 3G Launch Starts in Sydney and Tokyo As Thursday turned to Friday, shoppers in Sydney were among the first in the world to pick up the new phone during a midnight event at a local Optus store.
  • World Tech Update: E3, the EU, and eBay Gaming news from E3, the iPhone 3G undergoes a stress test, Intel introduces Centrino 2, the European Commission regulates, eBay skips liability issues, and much more.

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